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[syn: earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
earthball \earth"ball`\ n.
   any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having
   hard-skinned subterranean trufflelike fruiting bodies.
   Syn: earth-ball, false truffle.
        [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
earthball
    n 1: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-
         skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
         [syn: earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-
         skinned puffball]